Connell McShane: ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Returning To ABC

"The Walt Disney Company announced Monday it will resume production of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Tuesday after suspending the late-night talk show last week over what the company called “ill-timed and insensitive” comments regarding Charlie Kirk’s assassination." 

Source:News Nation with a look at Jimmy Kimmel Live. That's right, he ain't dead yet. 

From News Nation

As Ederik Schneider wrote about Jimmy Kimmel's suspension on Friday: 

"I mean assuming we survive the Trump Administration (perhaps I should start praying for that everyday) and the next President (hopefully starting in January, 2029) is a pro-Constitution, pro-rule of law... pro-law & order, (if you will President) does MAGA really want a Democratic administration, going after the Greg Gutfeld's, the Sean Hannity's, the Jesse Watters, the Laura Ingraham's? Because they all have bad habits of flat-out lying, or not even knowing what they're even talking about, when they do their commentaries (advertised as news) every night to their audiences. 

I would bet anything that 4 years from now, if there is a Democratic administration at that point, MAGA and company will start pretending to be "champions of free speech again", if a Democratic led FCC starts targeting their commentators... 

From The New Democrat

I would say that what ABC is doing here: "Is taking a strong stand for the First Amendment, the free press, after they realized the error of their ways and have decided to make amends with Jimmy Kimmel and every other comedian and commentator who has the big balls to say anything critical about Donald Trump, or any of his allies". But then I would be lying. And we don't do that here at The New Democrat. (At least when we're under oath) So I'm not going to start now. 

There's actually something else going on here. Perhaps this expression here is not 100% app, but there's the old expression: "Money talks and bullshit walks". 

The money part of this story is all the revenue that Jimmy Kimmel brings in for the American Broadcasting Company (that some know as just ABC) and the fact that ABC doesn't want to lose its $70 million a year, just from the show on air alone. And Ederik pointed out on Friday, they only suspended Kimmel's show because President Trump  and the FCC threaten to take away ABC's broadcasting license away, had they not had suspended Kimmel over his Charlie Kirk "MAGA gang" comments. 

The bullshit part in this story from the expression, "money talks and bullshit walks", is the fact that Jimmy Kimmel was suspended over a bad joke that he made about Charlie Kirk in relation to MAGA and the joke fell flat and offended a lot of people. 

Imagine if Johnny Carson, Dave Letterman, Dick Cavett, Jay Leno, etc, all got suspended over every bad joke that they made... we wouldn't have any full-time late night talk show hosts 20, 30, 40, years ago. we wouldn’t have any full-time late night talk show hosts 20, 30, 40, years ago, because they would all be getting suspended… perhaps after every show. The best comedian in the world is not going to be funny 100% of the time and at times will offend a lot of people, even when they're funny. 

But as long as money still talks in America and we're still at times able to give bullshit a kick in the ass and tell it to get the hell out of here, there will always be room in our country for the Jimmy Kimmel's and other comedians like him. 

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